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Ingo Rohlfing
@ingorohlfing.bsky.social
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I am here for all interesting and funny posts on the social sciences, broadly understood and including open science and meta science, academia, teaching and research. https://linktr.ee/ingorohlfing

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Ingo Rohlfing @ingorohlfing.bsky.social · 7h
ggskewboxplots: Enhanced Boxplots for Skewed Data in #Rstats
arxiv.org/abs/2511.170... #dataviz Never thought about it, but asymmetric whiskers are plausible to me when the distribution is skewed. Plus I didn't know there are so many variants of boxplots (shouldn't be surprised, though)
Illustration of boxplots with whiskers of asymmetric length. Seven vertically plotted boxplots are shown. Boxplots showing rightskewed data have shorter whiskers on the lower end and longer whiskers on the upper end. Plus R code that produces the figure.

Reposted by Ingo Rohlfing, Jill A. Jacobson

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METRICStanford @metricstanford.bsky.social · 20h
METRICS is accepting applications for the 2026–27 postdoctoral fellowship in meta-research at Stanford. Deadline: Feb 15, 2026. Start date will be around Oct 1, 2026 (+/- 2 month flexibility). See: metrics.stanford.edu/postdoctoral... #MetaResearch #postdoc
Postdoctoral Fellowship Announcement 2026-27
metrics.stanford.edu

Reposted by Cas Mudde, Kim L. Scheppele, Lisa W. Fazio , and 23 more

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 21h
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.

Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
www.livescience.com

ingorohlfing.bsky.social
Ingo Rohlfing @ingorohlfing.bsky.social · 1d
(or a) main argument is: One can use LLMs for coding, which is a key qualitative element of the research process. One cannot fully replace a researcher (I agree), however, bc drawing conclusions is a qualitative exercise. If qual coding can be delegated to an LLM, why not also other qual parts? 2/

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Ingo Rohlfing @ingorohlfing.bsky.social · 1d
Qualitative research with LLM chatbots: Technological reflexivity for interpretative technology
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
I haven't tried it yet, but I think LLMs can be useful for some tasks for some kind of qualitative research. wrt the article, I am not sure how consistent the 1/

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Maarten van Smeden @maartenvsmeden.bsky.social · 2d
For some research studies the optimal sample size should be estimated at 0

Reposted by Diane Coyle, Simon Hix, Elizabeth Saunders , and 21 more

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Sara Hobolt @sarahobolt.bsky.social · 2d
🚨 LSE Assistant Professor in Political Science 🚨

We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social

Any questions, please reach out to me

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jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Reposted by Mark Rubin, Ingo Rohlfing, Madeleine Pownall

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Serhii Nazarovets @serhiinazarovets.bsky.social · 4d
A new article by Chloe Patton in #ResearchEvaluation shows how debates about #OpenScience often slip into absurdity – like demanding #replication from the #Humanities. You can’t replicate history, culture, or interpretation the way you replicate a physics experiment: doi.org/10.1093/rese...
Patton, C. (2024). Replicability and the humanities: the problem with universal measures of research quality. Research Evaluation, 34. https://doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvaf052

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, Ingo Rohlfing

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Sophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social · 5d
lads i found ANOTHER Table of Impossible Summary Statistics in a "green economics" paper 🚩

Can you see the problem?
Table 1

ingorohlfing.bsky.social
Ingo Rohlfing @ingorohlfing.bsky.social · 8d
I read this post yesterday again because I was reading on many websites about CIs as covering the population value with 95% (or so) probability. I started to doubt my understanding of CIs and needed reassurance.

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andrewpgrieve.bsky.social @andrewpgrieve.bsky.social · 9d
"If we are unable to educate clinicians then merely persuading them to use CI's rather than p-values is to replace
the unthinking use of one technique with that of another."

A.P.Grieve (1992) Royal Statistical Society News and Notes, 18(7), 3-4.

ingorohlfing.bsky.social
Ingo Rohlfing @ingorohlfing.bsky.social · 9d
Same here. (Incidentally, we cover confidence intervals tomorrow in Stats 101.) However, when one says "Only use confidence intervals" (not you, but others), you are mandating a certain research interest, which is what one may or may not have in a given study.

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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 9d
#dataviz Very cool interactive - 7 sets Venn Diagram
128 color combinations from mixing 7 colors

moebio.com/research/sev...
7 sets Venn Diagram
moebio.com

Reposted by Ingo Rohlfing, Andrew Livingstone

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Richard D. Morey @richarddmorey.bsky.social · 9d
Luckily, you don't need to choose b/c you can use them both! The framing of "p value bad"/"CI good" means that some people never really get that they're based on the same information & the same basic stat. philosophy (some of these points are made here: richarddmorey.medium.com/power-and-pr...)
Power and precision
Why the push for replacing “power” with “precision” is misguided
richarddmorey.medium.com

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European Consortium for Political Research @ecpr.bsky.social · 9d
💫 Beginner-friendly #qualitative courses this Feb ⤵️

🔹Applications of Focus Groups @karenlumsden.bsky.social
🔹Case Study Research: Method & Practice @ingorohlfing.bsky.social
🔹Intro to Qualitative Comparative Analysis

📆 16–27 Feb 2026, Online

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#ecprms

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Ingo Rohlfing @ingorohlfing.bsky.social · 9d
At least it's different, but valid point. p-values can be useful in some contexts and for some questions, confidence intervals for others. I never got why CIs should be superior to p-values per se. I would have to read ab New Statistics again, but I can't imagine a convincing reason.

Reposted by Robbert Sanderman, Mikael Ehn, Seema Jayachandran , and 12 more

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Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon.bsky.social · 9d
"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."

Reposted by Jason N. Doctor, Ingo Rohlfing

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Elisabeth Bik - Perpetrator 5, a fraudulent microbiologist @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 9d
Next: Geoff Cumming @thenewstats.bsky.social with 'Statistical significance and p values: The researcher’s heroin'
* p values are highly unrealiable - don't trust them, don't use them!
www.thenewstatistics.com
tiny.cc/osfsigroulette
#IRICSydney
Speaker at the pedestal wearing a t-short with the link to TheNewStatistics website. Title slide

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Ingo Rohlfing @ingorohlfing.bsky.social · 10d
Nature's 5 best science book picks are behind a paywall. www.nature.com/articles/d41... You can see the first three books completely, the fourth book has the review capped, the fifth is completely hidden. I am sure one can do a nice quasi-experimental study with this.

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Ingo Rohlfing @ingorohlfing.bsky.social · 11d
Just one level below sacrificing half a thumb mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/36335/1/Righ...

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Egon Willigh☮gen 🟥 @egonw.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11d
"Author changes name, publishes 10 papers in journals that banned him" https://retractionwatch.com/2025/11/10/author-changes-name-publishes-10-papers-in-journals-that-banned-him/

Of course...
Author changes name, publishes 10 papers in journals that banned him
How to render a publishing ban moot? Change your surname and just keep submitting. That’s what happened in the case of Hashem Babaei, aka Hashem Gharababaei. In 2010, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), a professional society based in the U.K., banned the mechanical engineering researcher from the University of Guilan from submitting his work … Continue reading Author changes name, publishes 10 papers in journals that banned him
retractionwatch.com

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Ingo Rohlfing @ingorohlfing.bsky.social · 13d
I am sure they spent a lot of time thinking about what should and shouldn't be included in the interface. As they write, it reflects their experience with teaching quantitative methods, so I am sure it meets their needs.

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Ingo Rohlfing @ingorohlfing.bsky.social · 13d
actual data, probably messy, to answer real-world questions.
The tabs seem a bit overloaded to me with input elements, data, formulas and plots, but this is just my personal impression.
Here is the direct link to the website: 2k1.iq.harvard.edu 2/

Reposted by Sebastian Karcher

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Ingo Rohlfing @ingorohlfing.bsky.social · 13d
Statistical Intuition without Coding (or Teachers) [and w/o LLMs]
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
I think this is a very useful approach when one does not want to teach coding in parallel. Simulating data and quantities of interest are insightful features, though at the expense of not using 1/

Reposted by Ingo Rohlfing, Ian Hussey

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MetaArXivBot @metaarxivbot.bsky.social · 14d
Risk of bias in robustness reports: https://osf.io/wj26e

ingorohlfing.bsky.social
Ingo Rohlfing @ingorohlfing.bsky.social · 15d
Okay, quote tweets do not work when replies are restricted too (makes sense).
I was referring to a post where someone wrote he "heard numbers" that a larger share of papers is never read and an even larger share never cited. There was no source. One should just not dish out such number w/o sources.
ingorohlfing.bsky.social Ingo Rohlfing @ingorohlfing.bsky.social · 15d
As replies are restricted, a quote-post it has to be: What are the sources for these numbers? For political science, we have ongoing work in progress showing it is less than 50% of papers (for about 100 journals). Still high, but not that high.

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Ingo Rohlfing @ingorohlfing.bsky.social · 15d
I am not sure either whether this is for real, a scam or something else. The listed organizers are actual people, at least, and they refer to this agents4science.stanford.edu as their role model, which looks legit, but who can tell these days?

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Ingo Rohlfing @ingorohlfing.bsky.social · 15d
this, but this is necessarily still in its infancy. If one combines three new uses of AI in one format, how do you which one works better or worse and under what conditions? If an LLM tells you an LLM-written paper on LLM-based qualitative research is great, would you buy this w/o human scrutiny? 3/

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Ingo Rohlfing @ingorohlfing.bsky.social · 15d
The use of LLMs for qualitative research is new in itself and worth exploring. Determining the value of AI for this purpose requires human evaluation, IMO. Delegating paper writing to an LLM and the review of papers is also a new element of science, worth exploring too, I guess. There is work on 2/